The WBCSD Forest Solutions Group
today released a report providing a framework for understanding carbon
neutrality. The Issue Brief: Biomass Carbon Neutrality distills and
synthesizes the complexity of the debate and underlines the importance of
carbon neutrality in public policy.
Using biomass-derived fuels and
materials instead of more fossil fuel-intensive alternatives is one approach to
mitigating increases in atmospheric CO2. However, the benefits of
using biomass are under question, with the debate often centered on whether
biomass is “carbon neutral”. There is no widely accepted definition for “carbon
neutrality” and different people understand it to have different meanings.
